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Should Facebook have a woman on their board? 15 Feb 2012 | 01:12 pm
With the Facebook IPO on the horizon, there is a lot of news about Facebook. They have a very prominent woman as their second in command - Sheryl Sandberg. She has received a lot of coverage recently ...
Listening to Gloria Steinem 28 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
Gloria Steinem was in town yesterday to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of MS magazine. I had the opportunity to hear her speak twice - once at a lunch hosted by the Feminist Majority, and then aga...
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India 21 Dec 2011 | 03:32 am
I’m back in the United States – jeg lagged and up at 5am this morning, but happy about last week’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing India. In 2010, we piloted a Grace Hopper Conference i...
India and the Anita Borg Institute 9 Dec 2011 | 09:35 pm
I am India right now. Deanna Kosaraju and I spent the last few days in Delhi, and we are now in Hyderabad. We travel to Chennai, then Bangalore. The original purpose of the trip is for our upcoming Gr...
Grace Hopper Celebration 2011 10 Nov 2011 | 06:05 am
I recently returned from Portland, Oregon where we held the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. This year was tremendously exciting as we grew attendance by 35%. We held the conferenc...
The GoTo Conference in Aarhus, Denmark 15 Oct 2011 | 09:33 am
At the beginning of this week I attended and spoke at the Goto Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. A friend and colleague Rebecca Parsons organized a track on IT and Society at what was a very technical co...
APEC and Women in the Economy 30 Sep 2011 | 03:54 am
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the APEC Women in the Economy summit in San Francisco. There were a number of extraordinary people who spoke, but the keynote was from Hillary Clinton (a link ...
Obama's Job Council and 10,000 Engineers 6 Sep 2011 | 08:01 am
Last week I had the honor to join Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel, for a panel on increasing the number of Engineers in the workforce. A description of the panel (called a listening session and sponso...
TechWomen 21 Jun 2011 | 11:33 am
At the Anita Borg Institute, we decided to participate this year in a State Department program called TechWomen. The program is a partnership between the state department, Institute of International E...
NCWIT and Diversity for Innovation 25 May 2011 | 03:31 am
This week I am at the NCWIT summit. Yesterday's talks included two academics with very valuable research on Gender and Innovation - Scott Page and Joshua Aronson. Scott Page is a researcher at the Un...
